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fournir

fournir

French

Verb

fournir

  1. to supply, to provide
    La boulangerie fournit mon restaurant en pain.
    The bakery supplies my restaurant with bread.
  2. to put in
    Fournir de l'effort.
    Put in some effort.
  3. (card games) To follow suit
  4. (slang) To poke, to shaft, to hump; to have sex
    J'ai fourni ta mère.
    I shafted your mother.

Derived terms

Conjugation

This is a regular verb of the second conjugation, like finir, choisir, and most other verbs with infinitives ending in -ir. One salient feature of this conjugation is the repeated appearance of the infix -iss-.

  Conjugation of fournir (see also Appendix:French verbs)
simple compound
infinitive fournir avoir fourni
gerund en fournissant en ayant fourni
present participle fournissant
/fuʁ.ni.sɑ̃/
past participle fourni
/fuʁ.ni/
person singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative je (j’) tu il nous vous ils
simple
tenses		 present fournis
/fuʁ.ni/ 		fournis
/fuʁ.ni/ 		fournit
/fuʁ.ni/ 		fournissons
/fuʁ.ni.sɔ̃/ 		fournissez
/fuʁ.ni.se/ 		fournissent
/fuʁ.nis/
imperfect fournissais
/fuʁ.ni.sɛ/ 		fournissais
/fuʁ.ni.sɛ/ 		fournissait
/fuʁ.ni.sɛ/ 		fournissions
/fuʁ.ni.sjɔ̃/ 		fournissiez
/fuʁ.ni.sje/ 		fournissaient
/fuʁ.ni.sɛ/
past historic1 fournis
/fuʁ.ni/ 		fournis
/fuʁ.ni/ 		fournit
/fuʁ.ni/ 		fournîmes
/fuʁ.nim/ 		fournîtes
/fuʁ.nit/ 		fournirent
/fuʁ.niʁ/
future fournirai
/fuʁ.ni.ʁe/ 		fourniras
/fuʁ.ni.ʁa/ 		fournira
/fuʁ.ni.ʁa/ 		fournirons
/fuʁ.ni.ʁɔ̃/ 		fournirez
/fuʁ.ni.ʁe/ 		fourniront
/fuʁ.ni.ʁɔ̃/
conditional fournirais
/fuʁ.ni.ʁɛ/ 		fournirais
/fuʁ.ni.ʁɛ/ 		fournirait
/fuʁ.ni.ʁɛ/ 		fournirions
/fuʁ.ni.ʁjɔ̃/ 		fourniriez
/fuʁ.ni.ʁje/ 		fourniraient
/fuʁ.ni.ʁɛ/
compound
tenses		 present perfect Use the present tense of avoir followed by the past participle
pluperfect Use the imperfect tense of avoir followed by the past participle
past anterior1 Use the past historic tense of avoir followed by the past participle
future perfect Use the future tense of avoir followed by the past participle
conditional perfect Use the conditional tense of avoir followed by the past participle
subjunctive que je (j’) que tu qu’il que nous que vous qu’ils
simple
tenses		 present fournisse
/fuʁ.nis/ 		fournisses
/fuʁ.nis/ 		fournisse
/fuʁ.nis/ 		fournissions
/fuʁ.ni.sjɔ̃/ 		fournissiez
/fuʁ.ni.sje/ 		fournissent
/fuʁ.nis/
imperfect1 fournisse
/fuʁ.nis/ 		fournisses
/fuʁ.nis/ 		fournît
/fuʁ.ni/ 		fournissions
/fuʁ.ni.sjɔ̃/ 		fournissiez
/fuʁ.ni.sje/ 		fournissent
/fuʁ.nis/
compound
tenses		 past Use the present subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle
pluperfect1 Use the imperfect subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle
imperative – tu – nous vous –
— fournis
/fuʁ.ni/ 		— fournissons
/fuʁ.ni.sɔ̃/ 		fournissez
/fuʁ.ni.se/ 		—
1literary tenses

Etymology

From Old French furnir, fornir (whence also English furnish), of Germanic origin, from Frankish *frumjan ‎(“to complete, execute”), from Proto-Germanic *frumjaną ‎(“to further, promote”), from Proto-Indo-European *promo- ‎(“front, forward”). Cf. Old High German frumjan ‎(“to perform, provide”), from fruma ‎(“utility, gain”), akin to Old English fremu ‎(“profit, advantage”), fremian ‎(“to promote, perform”). Compare Catalan fornir, Italian fornire.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /fuʁniʁ/
  • Rhymes: -iʁ

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